1 republic of uzbekistan ministry of higher and secondary specialised education

Cardinal numerals bigger than 20
are used with a hyphen 
between two parts : twenty-one, fifty-five, ninety-nine; 
numerals
bigger than hundred
are used with 
a hyphen
between compound 
numeral and the word 
and: 
a/one hundred
and 
twenty –one , three 
hundred and twenty-six, nine hundred
and
ninety-nine; in American 
English 
and
is mostly not used. 
Numerals bigger than 1,000
are used 
with a
hyphen
between compound numerals and the word 
and 
(a 
thousand or one thousand): a/one thousand 
and 
one hundred 
and
twenty-one (1,121), two thousand 
and
three hundred
and
fifty-

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197 
six(2,356), three hundred 
and
five thousand 
and
two hundred 
and
thirty-four(305,234). 
There are different words for the numeral
 O:
1)oh – for telephone numbers and codes: 67890( six-seven-eight-
nine-oh); 
2)zero- for measurements ( temperature) : -5C ( five degrees 
Celsius below zero); 
3)nought- for figure
 O 
in British English : 5-5=0 (five minus five 
leaves nought; 
4)nil – for results in sport : The match ended 2-0. The match ended
two-nil; 
5)love – for tennis : 40-0 ( forty-love); in American English 
zero
is used. 
Cardinal numerals indicate exact number, they are used in 
counting.The cardinal numerals such as 
hundred, thousand, million
may be used with articles and they may be substantivized and used in 
the plural: hundreds, thousands, millions.The word
 million
may or may 
not be used in plural: two million/two millions. If it is followed by other 
cardinal numeral plurality is not used: